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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NMcCoy" data-source="post: 4759372" data-attributes="member: 61546">I grok resistances, but Immunity seems a little weird. If something has "Immune X", does that mean that powers with the X keyword don't affect it at all? Suppose I'm a Wizard, and blast a Rotwing Zombie (Immune: disease, poison) with Lightning Serpent (Arcane, Implement, Lightning, Poison; Hit: 2d12 + Intelligence modifier lightning damage, and the target takes ongoing 5 poison damage and is slowed (save ends both).)The MM wording for Immune is as follows:Immune: The monster has immunity to the stated kind of damage or effect. For example, a monster with “immune poison” never takes poison damage and can’t suffer any other ill effect from a poison attack. There are two ways I can see this going, basically - either it's immune to everything that has the Poison keyword, meaning it's not affected by the attack at all, or the lightning damage doesn't count as "any other ill effect" and so it takes the lightning damage but isn't slowed. The latter would seem to be the more sensible interpretation, but I'm not sure what the proper ruling is.It would seem, after all, that you can use a Staff of Fiery Might to reroll the damage on Blazing Starfall even if you aren't a Cosmic Magic Sorcerer. But can you safely drop a Blazing Starfall on your Fire Lizard familiar?</blockquote>